Over El Paso

This is half
the journey
when the plane
turns over
El Paso-
Juárez and
the whole of
west Texas
lays ahead.

There is no
darkness quite
like the ground
across West
Texas, no
thing quite so
opaque in
its own way,
with freckles
of light from
time to time,
space to space.

And surely
amid the
stratosphere
we too are
a mark, a
spot, of light
against a
far deeper dark
than Texas.

MB 10/16/2017

This is half
the journey
when the plane
turns over